The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two


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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of the competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally employed when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.

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